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Fantom Drive's GreenDrive USB 2.0 and eSATA disk drive features the latest advances in power saving technology and ROHS (Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive) compliant materials and process. The GreenDrive gives the consumer the ability to minimize his or her carbon footprint without sacrificing performance. Fantom Drive's GreenDrive USB 2.0 and eSATA hard drive is a power conscious step forward in providing maximum capacity and performance while reducing power consumption by up to 40%. The Fantom Drive's GreenDrive USB 2.0 and eSATA hard drive features a sturdy aluminum casing for maximum durability, fan-free design for silent operation, and can be placed horizontally or vertically to increase desk space. Fantom Drive's GreenDrive yields an average drive power savings of 4-5 watts over competitors' drives while maintaining solid performance.

Huge 2TB Storage Capacity The Fantom Drives GreenDrive GD2000EU external hard drive provides an amazing total storage capacity of 2TB so you can save your movies, music, applications and documents for easy sharing with your friends and even back up your system.

Go Green with Fantom GreenDrivesThe GreenDrive family of external hard drives feature the latest advances in power saving technology and RoHS (Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive) compliance standards. The GreenDrive gives the consumer the opportunity to minimize their carbon footprint without sacrificing performance.

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Rating: 3/5Noisy Drive

Pros: It does what I need, it just sits there and does it's job, it stores data and keeps running. I haven't had a problem at all with this drive. Or my 7 year old 1TB Fantom drive.

Cons: I have the 1TB Fantom drive that did me well, but I needed more storage so I bought this drive. The 1TB had some spin up noise, but nothing compared to this 2TB drive, it is very noisy when spinning up and while working. I have since bought another 4TB drive and this 2TB is still the noisiest drive. I tested the drive speed today on my 2013 iMac and it came in at 18 MB/s write and 23 MB/s Read.

Other Thoughts: I would say in general this is not a special drive, but it hasn't failed me and that is the most important.

Cons: Mine has the Hitachi HDSSC3020ALA632 hard drive. The drive has a quirk - if the drive is idle for a long period, it will go into a hibernate mode. Later when you attempt to access the drive, it doesn't correctly come out of hibernation. This causes the WIN7 kernel to hang and the only way out is a power cycle.

This has never caused any data loss on the drive, but you can loose an open document from the re-boot. It may be possible to fix this with a firmware upgrade on the drive, but I have not found one yet.

Other Thoughts: I have another 1GB model Fantom GreenDrive that works fine. This problem seems to be related to this particular model Hitachi hard drive.

Very tough and durable.It's been dropped many times.It has been left in my car overnight many times, even in the winter.It has had beer spilled on it.

I use this drive to store my movie/TV show collection, and I watch at least a few hours of video each day, so it has a TON of hours on it.

To be honest, I expected it to have failed by now. None of the other externals I have had have lasted this long, and I have owned external drives from all the major manufacturers.

Cons: Didn't come with an eSATA cable.The casing isn't aluminum, it's painted plastic. It is quite tough though, as it has been dropped on concrete from about 3 feet and it didn't crack, just scratched the paint a bit.

I wish the USB2.0 speeds were as high as the eSATA speeds.

Other Thoughts: I have gone through a lot of external hard drives in my life, this has been the most reliable, longest lasting drive I have ever owned.

I am a movie/TV show hoarder. Everything I watch has been played directly from this hard drive over eSATA, and I download everything directly to this drive.

The first year and a half that I owned it, it never got turned off. It was constantly working, as I was downloading files to it 24/7, I'd watch them and then delete them to keep enough space to continue downloading new ones.

I figure it has had approximately 120TB of data written to it over it's lifetime.

Bottom line - This drive has lasted longer than anything from the "Big Name" manufacturers. I am a Fantom customer for life!

Rating: 1/5Drive is useless

Cons: Esata controller on drive/box doesn't seem to work properly, as mentioned in other reviews, the partition tables get corrupted. USB also seems to result in corrupted partitions. Drive is very loud and hot. Unable to reliably store anything on it.

Other Thoughts: Unfortunately the problems took a month or two to manifest, so I apparently have to deal with the manufacturer. They had me scan the drive with SMART tools, but it came up clean so I might be stuck with it.

Rating: 5/52 YEARS STILL GOING STRONG!

Cons: My pc has to wait for them to wake up so i can look at the files, i think they go to sleep so they don't overheat which is a good thing keep these babies cool.

Other Thoughts: I have 4 of those and man i'm surprised to see 2 years later the price got higher lol!I was hoping to find the same at 4TB but i guess i have to wait technology evolves slow the past 2 years lol.

Rating: 5/5Has taken a lot of abuse, and is still kickin

Pros: Have had it for a year and a half. I keep all my video files on it, and I'm constantly streaming video from it. I probably use this drive at least 4 hours a day when I average it out. Extremely durable, i have dropped it many times. Good transfer rates.

Cons: Vibrates my keyboard, if I let it touch. And the price has skyrocketed since I bought it. (got it for $100 on newegg)No E-Sata cable included, but I knew that when I bought it so no eggs off.

Rating: 2/5

Other Thoughts: I had this drive plugged to a PowerMac and now to an iMac. On either computer I was never able to make it so it wouldn't go to sleep. This is the biggest issue with this drive. It goes to sleep as soon as you don't use it and haven't found a way to control it. That means you have to wait 5-10 seconds every time you need to access the drive, and it will be very loud while it wakes up or goes to sleep!! very bothersome.

Other Thoughts: I like this drive and it's a good deal for the price, but the clicking drives me insane. It's loud and never stops... going 24 hours a day. I am afraid of the heads going bad. I contacted support because this is an issue imo (seeing as I have 6 other drive, all of which are silent). All I got from support was "clicking is normal, but you can run a disk check to make sure the disk is okay".

Although it works, I probably won't buy again. Spend a few extra dollars to make sure you get a drive from a company that can replace a clicking one.

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